✎Economics

For the director of music. A maskil of David. When Doeg the Edomite had gone to Saul and told him: “David has gone to the house of Ahimelek.”

     1             Why do you boast of evil, you mighty hero?

         Why do you boast all day long,

         you who are a disgrace in the eyes of God?

     2             You who practice deceit,

         your tongue plots destruction;

         it is like a sharpened razor.

     3             You love evil rather than good,

         falsehood rather than speaking the truth.

     4             You love every harmful word,

         you deceitful tongue!

     5             Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin:

         He will snatch you up and pluck you from your tent;

         he will uproot you from the land of the living.

     6             The righteous will see and fear;

         they will laugh at you, saying,

     7             “Here now is the man

         who did not make God his stronghold

                  but trusted in his great wealth

         and grew strong by destroying others!”

     8             But I am like an olive tree

         flourishing in the house of God;

                  I trust in God’s unfailing love

         for ever and ever.

     9             For what you have done I will always praise you

         in the presence of your faithful people.

                  And I will hope in your name,

         for your name is good.